Ahhh another blissful still, tranquil, early Manly morning …. just kidding … “this one goes up to 11” –
Does anyone know which Movie that quote is from? (No Googling Stephen) … oh sorry mate.. I forgot you’re banned anyway!
Here’s some mood pics to get you started…
Yep it’s a washing machine… bring your socks and unmentionables and throw em in!
Good looking crowd this morning…
..One of Midget Farrelly’s boards… busted-as broo…
…and down to business…
Dani and Sarah have announced they are staying in Manly and not going home! Good on you two! 😉
A few of the guys have offered their spare rooms…
Today all the fun was above the waterline..
Yep and the point was working as well… Here’s Jane looking unperturbed..
and look at that style..
You get the idea 🙂
It was good to land on the beach… you could pretty much catch a wave into Shelley..
John H … going for his “Summer with Wetsuit” badge.. just 1 week to go!
Lesley taking an early shower….
Getting in was a bit of fun..
Ian having his usual luck with the birds (you can’t rush in too quick, mate .. they can tell if you’re desperate!)
Stats:
Swimmers: 97
Dashers: 4! (did they all come back?)
New friends: 7
Water temp: 23.6c
Final 10km and 6km swim of this Summer – Tomorrow
The swims are ON at this stage. A final call will be made tomorrow morning, so if you are planing to swim please come down. It looks most likely the swims will be in the harbour – so the meeting place will be Manly Cove at the end of Ashburner St – John Bond will be assessing the situation tomorrow and we’ll go from there.
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“One of our fellow B&B’ers, Sebastian Terry is running an event in aid of Camp Quality next month. It’s the “100 Things” (Check out www.100things.com.au) Documentary Premiere on 8th @ The Steyne Hotel. Ticket price includes 4 x free drinks, free food, free raffle entry and global premiere of documentary which will be on the Discovery channel. Cost: $50 with 100% of money going to camp Quality! Tickets and info available at http://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/Premiere”
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Graham Kent is involved with the YMCA Swimathon – teaching kids to swim: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/graham_kent_5
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Anne Scollon left a pink spring suit in the change rooms at the surf club about 3 weeks ago.. it’s got a touch of pink on the sleeve.. if you see it can you please let her know? 🙂
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That’s all have a great day from me – Happy Friday wooooo!
45 comments
Lesley
22/02/2013 at 11:09 am
hehe good one Mate!
Lotsa great action shots!
*cough* love the surf board in the bin pic!
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
22/02/2013 at 11:22 am
Nailed it Mate! Awesome shots and razor-sharp wit.
Stephen banned for one bxtt peep too many and now all bxtts rightly banned apart from Lesbutt which just passes the censors:-))
Should be a really exciting and action-packed 10K in the morning….. see all the Super-Slowies there:-)
Claire
22/02/2013 at 11:30 am
Hi there
If you order B&B swimmers and opt to pick up, who do you pick them up from?
Thanks
Claire Keeling
Lesley
22/02/2013 at 11:37 am
Hi Claire – I can give them to you. Just find me (there most days)
Thanks
Lesley
Jane
22/02/2013 at 11:47 am
Lesbutt – surely that wasn’t you at halfway? I thought I saw you at the point.
Jane
22/02/2013 at 12:10 pm
LSA, I’m a bit slow (all right, no comments please), but what is a bxtt?
Stephen Coulter
22/02/2013 at 12:23 pm
I’m baaaaccckkkkkkk!
Claire
22/02/2013 at 12:25 pm
Great thanks, will order one now
Lesley
22/02/2013 at 12:38 pm
defo at halfway – yes that was me! I was being vain – i had a treatment in my hair and didn’t want to spend too much time in water!!! :-DD
re: bxtt = replace the x with a u.
I found that references to b*tt were blocked by typepad!! hehe
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
22/02/2013 at 12:41 pm
OK, I’ll try it and see if it passes the censors – it’s a BUTT.
Lesley said that for the last couple of days any messages with that unmentionable word in did not get through to the blog along with any messages of any kind from Mr Coulter! Obviously, the skinny dip pics and comments were just going too far….
Lesley
22/02/2013 at 12:41 pm
damn! ;-D
John S
22/02/2013 at 12:45 pm
Great blog Nick.
Thanks to all the bloggers, and up till yesterday didn’t realise that Ian is in the backroom most days loading all the technical info stuff on the electric computer machine thingy. An unsung hero, thanks Ian.
Stephen Coulter
22/02/2013 at 12:48 pm
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Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
22/02/2013 at 12:49 pm
Were you banned from iswimtoo and all your other sites? Must have been pricey to get back here! Next time, we can do a special deal and speak to the censors:-)
The submarine formerly known as Brendan
22/02/2013 at 12:58 pm
Gotta love a Spinal Tap quote
"Snorkles"
22/02/2013 at 1:27 pm
Yay!!!!!!
"Snorkles"
22/02/2013 at 1:28 pm
What ? No more But’s ?? What about Lainey-Loo’s hers were all over the blog at one point??
Lips – you ready for tomorrow – the swim is gonna be fun!!!
Michelle
22/02/2013 at 1:36 pm
Fabulous blog and pics as always Nick…u could leave yr day job! Particulaly like the one of us heading into wave zone with yellow south steyne SLSC in foreground …fab!
Stephen Coulter
22/02/2013 at 1:46 pm
Definitely. I believe the HK censors are more amenable to such practical approaches than the Singapore ones!
Lucy
22/02/2013 at 2:00 pm
Murray took a great photo of you good looking pink caps this morning. Check it out: http://daily.sproutdaily.com/
Slow Ian
22/02/2013 at 2:01 pm
Normal practice is that you can pick any B&B merchandise up from Far West Childrens office between 9-5 Mon-Fri, but if you can’t get there during those times, Lesley and Jenny Knapman have volunteered to pick them up so you can collect them when you arrive in the morning. You will need to let one of us know that you want them picked up so we can oblige.
Tacomajim
22/02/2013 at 2:28 pm
Hi Gang;
Big things happening in Perth tomorrow as the big swim to Rottnest is taking place. They’ll be starting at around 9AM our time and there are a few people to watch. AND .. a really cool way to watch them. Go to mapswim.com and up will come GoogleEarth image of Perth and Rottnest.
Tomorrow, you’ll see multicoloured numbers strung out from Cottesloe to Rottnest. These are transmitter chips worn by each swimmer or team. The white numbers are solo swimmers and if you hover your cursor over each number, the swimmer’s name should come up. If you CLICK on the number during the race, I think the swimmer’s elapsed time and distance may come up, too.
Some swimmers to watch, followed by their numbers:
Michael Christie 167, attempting his FIFTH crossing.
Robin Turner 201
Michael Teys 187
Cae Tolman 24
Rob Taylor 163
El Prendergast 97 (Alex’s sister, with Alex paddling in support)
It’ll be interesting to watch. As a matter of fact, it already is!!
If you go to the website, you can see where they are right now!
Cheers, and enjoy the show. Get behind your fellow BNB swimmers!
James Goins
Little Tiger
22/02/2013 at 2:28 pm
Big thankyou to all the lovely Bloggers and behind the scene people.
Tacomajim
22/02/2013 at 2:36 pm
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Tacomajim
22/02/2013 at 2:49 pm
Hi Gang:
You can follow along tomorrow as a few of our swimmers are over in Perth attempting the 19.7km swim to Rottnest Island. If you go to mapswim.com you can follow them by their numbers during the race. They will all be wearing transmitters which will allow them to be tracked by GPS. Race starts about 9Am our time.
Michael Christie #167
Michael Teys #187
Cae Tolman #24
Robin Turner #201
Rob Taylor #163
El Prendergast (Alex’s sister, Alex is support paddling) #97
Just go to the website and you will see an aerial image of the Perth/Rottnest area, dotted with numbers of various colours. The white numbers are for solo swimmers. As you hover over a number, the person or team which is denoted by that number will appear. During the race, you can track them as they move towards Rottnest.
As the transmitters are already active, if you go to the website now you will see where they are all right now! Have fun and get behind your fellow BNB swimmers!
James Goins
Tacomajim
22/02/2013 at 2:49 pm
SORRY, WEBSITE IS MAPSWIM.COM
Jane
22/02/2013 at 3:09 pm
Tx Sarah – I did suspect it!
Jane
22/02/2013 at 3:11 pm
So I shouldn’t even say “Sorry to b*tt in” whenever I do?
Michael [EX CI]
22/02/2013 at 3:44 pm
Hi everyone. First off thank you so much for all your good luck wishes and good vibes, they are very much appreciated.
If you guys would like to follow all the swimmers during the swim tomorrow just go to mapswim.com and you’ll be sweet.
Wilf Deck
22/02/2013 at 3:52 pm
There will be used pink caps and other stuff available at my garage sale tomorrow between 8 and 3.
No 38 The Crescent, cnr Margaret St. Enter off Mgt St.
Wilf
lesley
22/02/2013 at 4:31 pm
ooh any second hand pink budgies Wilf?? 😀
John
22/02/2013 at 5:31 pm
PLEASE NOTE – Besides the bad surf conditions forecast for tomorrow, there is heavy rain predicted for this evening or tomorrow. Safety issues arise as well as the pollution of the water in the harbour.
Consequently there is a good chance of postponing the challenge swims till the following Saturday.
I will be at the front of surf club in the morning.
Dolphin Whisperer
22/02/2013 at 6:01 pm
Yay
Slow Ian
22/02/2013 at 6:05 pm
I have an old pair if you can put them to good use!!
Dolphin Whisperer
22/02/2013 at 6:07 pm
Thank you James for the update on the Rottnest swim.
To the Swimmers.
A big GOOD LUCK from all the eastern BandBers.
You guys rock and I for one will be on the website willing you all on.
Robin T
22/02/2013 at 6:14 pm
Thanks James.
The site to go to is mapswim.com and the GPS devices are the iPhones of our support crew. So in my case it’s my paddler who I’m hoping will be mighty close to me at all times. The map positions you see now are those of our support crew that have their devices active already.
Michael C and I say thanks to everyone for their good wishes and we will be doing our best tomorrow.
John S
22/02/2013 at 6:18 pm
Hi John
7.00 am Usual time? or earlier? Thx.
Nick D
22/02/2013 at 6:26 pm
Hahahah!
Nick D
22/02/2013 at 6:28 pm
Thanks everyone glad u enjoy the blogs!..
Have been at golf all arvo 🙂
It is Friday……
John
22/02/2013 at 6:39 pm
I will be at the club about 6.40am to make a decision.
John
22/02/2013 at 6:46 pm
Good luck to all our BnB swimmers for the Rottnest Island swim challenge tomorrow.
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
22/02/2013 at 7:23 pm
Best wishes all – let us know how you go. MC, we’d like to hear more from you!
John S
22/02/2013 at 7:27 pm
thx
xxx
Little Tiger
22/02/2013 at 7:50 pm
Sounds good 007. I’ll come down early with my box of goodies, just in case we’re good to go.
Goodluck to the Legends in the West. Hey Robin T, don’t let your mind wander, keep your thoughts CLEAN.
Tedley
22/02/2013 at 9:01 pm
good luck Micheal and Robin